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Featured Downtown St. Paul Hotels:

Holiday Inn St. Paul DowntownThe Holiday Inn Hotel St Paul-RiverCentre offers free high speed wireless internet and local phone calls! If you are attending a hockey game, concert or convention, then you should stay across the street from Xcel Energy Center and The RiverCentre. If you are visiting St. Paul... more.

Best Western Regency Plaza St. Paul/Oakdale
Best Western Regency Plaza Hotel St. Paul / Oakdale Has A Golf Course, Tennis Courts, A Health Club, A Spa Tub, And A Fitness Facility. Business Amenities Include High-speed Internet Access And Business Services. Guests Are Served A Complimentary Breakfast Each Morning. Guest Parking Is Complimentary. Additional Amenities Include Air Conditioning In Public Areas... more.

About St. Paul

St. Paul, Minnesota, is a city that has undergone many changes during its historical development. Today, the city, which sits on the banks of the Mississippi River, has skyscrapers that completed construction as recently as the 1970's. As meager as that sounds, St. Paul, Minnesota, had even humbler beginnings.

However, it is a city ripe with the history of its first inhabitants, Native American settlers. Their history, which can be traced back 2,000 years, is evidenced in the Indian burial mounds on Dayton's Bluff at Indian Mounds Park. It is known that the Sioux Indian tribe settled among the white cliffs of sandstone and gave it a name, interpreted as "little white rock". The Sioux inhabited the area from 1600 and by 1837 the area was set up as Fort Snelling when all the land situated east of the Mississippi River was granted to the United States government.

Following close behind the Fort's erection came an influx of economic opportunity. Since the fort protected it, a dominant force of French Canadian explorers and fur traders found it a prosperous place to conduct business. Bootlegging became a popular past time with the arrival of a fur trader named Pierre Parrant. The whiskey trade was banned within the fort but the enterprising Parrant set up his own establishment outside of it called "Pig's Eye Tavern". The area soon adopted that name for the area.

No settlement would be complete without the advent of places of worship and schools. This became the case a few years later. In 1841 Father Lucien Galtier, a missionary arrived and immediately established the Apostle Paul chapel. The community was later named St. Paul in 1857 and became the capital city of Minnesota. Hailing from New York with an agenda to start a school was Harriet Bishop.

Within a few short years, St. Paul became a booming town for travelers seeking new opportunities on the frontier. Some passed through on the way into the Dakota Territory. Yet many put down roots after arriving by railroad and steamboat carriers. Expansion of the Northern Pacific Railway and the Great Northern Railway was made possible and the two lines made St. Paul their headquarters.

St. Paul has seen more than its share of devastation caused by damaging storms between 1900 and the 1960's but it has always managed to bounce back.